[Tfug] Need battery monitor for X

[earljviolet at deserthowler.com]

I rechecked my search.  When I searched for 'battery monitor' wmbattery
didn't show but when I searched for 'battery' it showed up ... along with
a several others.  There is no mention of the word monitor in the in the
description.

Earl

On Thu, August 11, 2011 11:08 am, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:02:58AM -0700, earljviolet at deserthowler.com
> wrote:
>> This is what I needed.  Am now wondering why it didn't show up in
>> Synaptic
>> until I got a name for it.  OH, well.
>
> Admittedly, it's been ages since I used Synaptic but last I saw, its
> search capabilities were extremely limited.  Better to use aptitude or
> apt-cache.  By default, aptitude only searches package names while
> apt-cache also searches the package descriptions.  Aptitude's
> searching capabilities are very sophisticated (and a bit confusing);
> see the full user manual (not just the man page) for details.
>
> For comparison:
>
> cjr at wagner:~$ aptitude search battery|wc -l
> 3
> cjr at wagner:~$ apt-cache search battery|wc -l
> 62
> cjr at wagner:~$ aptitude search ~dbattery|wc -l
> 62
>
>
> Claude
>
>
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